<p>My D applied to 6 schools this year: our instate flagship UTexas, OOS at Clemson, Florida State and Arizona State, and two privates. She's a high-stat, great EC, female engineering applicant.</p>
<p>UTexas is very expensive now even instate, $21000/year, and merit aid is practically nonexistent. </p>
<p>Clemson gave great merit aid, including an out of state tuition waiver and some big grants. A professor in the dept she applied to called to beg her to come. </p>
<p>Florida State gave pretty good merit aid. ASU offered a pile of loans and has been a bureaucratic nightmare.</p>
<p>So it is not fair to generalize that all state schools give bad aid to OOS applicants.</p>